Aspekty organizacyjne i majątkowe funkcjonowania stowarzyszeń Kościoła katolickiego w świetle regulacji prawa polskiego i prawa kanonicznego

Abstract

The right of association is one of the pillars of a democratic state ruled by law. In the Polish legal system, the right of association are enshrined in Article. 12 of the Polish Constitution. Numerous provisions of international law also refer to it, making them one of the most important human rights. The Catholic Church also supports the association of their believers. The right of association and the scope of this right were laid in the Code of Canon Law in 1983. The issue of association of the faithful, who are also subject to the provisions of Polish law, must be for the mixed nature (res mixtae). This dualism of legal regulation of association, seriously hampers the proper interpretation of the rules derived from two different from each other legal systems. The purpose of this article is to present, in a comparative context, the Polish law the regulations of the Polish and the canonical law forming a right of the faithful to associate with a particular taking into account the property and organizational functioning of this kind of associations.